Autumn Fireworks

Would like your opinions.

 

Thanks

Tom

I'd really like to know how this was done (excuse my ignorance please). Was it a multiple exposure, did you do any digital manipulation. I hope you'll give more details so we can all learn.

I like the overall effect - it is like a ray of light falling on a whirlpool of autumn leaves in the very early morning. But I find the central yellow too strong and not realy blending in with the autumn colours and would prefer a warmer orange. Still nice. Thanks for showing this.

This shot is a multiple exposure done in the camera. 8 exposures each at -3ev. I used a Maxxum 7 with a 28-105 lens. I don't remember what focal length I used, but I just adjusted it to fill the frame.

 

The sky (background) was very blue. I used a circular polarizer to enhance the patches of blue that showed through the leaves.

There was a small patch of red/orange / yellow leaves that were back lit in the midst of green leaves/shadows. A straight on single exposure would have been very dull.

 

The Maxxum 7 has markings in the viewfinder at about the 1/3 points. I placed one of the corner AF sensors on a prominent leaf. (based on your comment, possibly putting it over a warmer color leaf might have worked better).

 

I made one exposure, then rotated the camera a little about that point. Repeated for 6 more times (7 exposures) then rotated for the last shot enough to get some separation in the photo. Notice the red leaf at about the ten o'clock position is the same one as the orange one at about 11:30. Again this was all done on one frame. You can see that my rotation is not very uniform.

 

When I set the focal length I tried rotating the camera a few times until I made sure that I had everything I wanted in the frame.

 

The only digital processing was cropping, setting the white and black points, and boosting the saturation a little (the Agfa film is pretty saturated).

 

The yellow area on a custom machine scan & print we did at my local camera store shows more light green mixed in with the yellow. I think you can just get a hint of that in this version. Also the sharp white lines around the center are a little more prominent in the machine print.

 

Thanks for the comment and I hope that this helps.

 

Tom

I like the design and the colors, but would like to know just what I'm looking at here.

I'm surprised by the high color saturation.

You must have nailed the exposures.

Just stumbled upon this picture. Its very impressive, i love the saturation. Never seen anything quite like it. Its great how youve seen an (slightly complicated) idea and youve managed to succeed in showing this on the actual print, rather than just the idea in your mind.

Just amazing, looks like a kaleidoscope!